Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The man who helped launch a million memes has died. The GIF or "Graphic Interchange Format," according to a 1987 document, "allows ...

March 24 (UPI) --Stephen Wilhite, one of the people behind the invention of the GIF image format, has died in Ohio, his wife announced. He was 74. Wilhite died on March 14 after a being hospitalized ...

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Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF, died this month. Artist and curator Jason Eppink recounts the tale of the technology behind the animated internet graphic. Steve Wilhite, inventor of the graphics ...

James Van Der Beek sobbing. The guy who blinks in disbelief. That disturbing dancing baby.For these and millions more GIFs, we have Stephen Wilhite to thank.GIFs, those looping animated images, are a ...

The man who helped launch a million memes has died. Steve Wilhite, who is credited with inventing the GIF file format, which makes possible the proliferation of funny Simpsons and SpongeBob memes ...

The inventor of the GIF has died from COVID. Social media would not be as colorful, if it were not for Stephen Wilhite. The American computer scientist invented the GIF, or Graphic Interchange Format, ...